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GiBe

A (sometimes) brilliant person who dedicates huge amounts of time, thought and money to writing a research paper but is somehow unable to make this research paper comprehensible to any other member of the human race.

"The model uses a multilayered canopy submodel of photosynthesis and phenology initially developed for the PnET-Day and PnET-II models by Aber et al."

A rather large, unstable chemical that some people claim tastes like sugar.
Despite being called an 'additive' it breaks down into numerous other chemicals, one of which is very bad for people with a certain genetic disorder. Methyl alcohol (the stuff in windshield wiper fluid) is also a common by-product and really isn't good for anybody